Oryx

Oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes. Their pelage is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight and annulated. The exception is the scimitar oryx, which lacks dark markings on the legs, only has faint dark markings on the head, has an ochre neck, and has horns that are clearly decurved. All oryx species prefer near-desert conditions and can survive without water for long periods.

Oryx

Alchemist-hp ( talk ) ( www.pse-mendelejew.de ) · FAL · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
oryxPBDB
Sits inside
HippotraginiPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 33 of 42 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 42 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Oryx on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

42 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.27°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.21°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EShungura — 5.04°N, 36.00°EShungura — 5.06°N, 36.04°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°E

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The named rock units Oryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oryx and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Oryx and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

444 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Oryx, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

31 references

Each of the 42 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Oryx

Credit
Alchemist-hp ( talk ) ( www.pse-mendelejew.de )
Licence
FAL
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Oryx gazella · ummz:mammals:168361

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Blainville 1816